Ghana has over the years been dealing with the issue of open defecation.

Professor Chris Gordon, Director, Institute of Environment and Sanitation, University of Ghana, Legon, said open defecation cost Ghana $79 million per year, where as it would require less than one million latrines to eliminate the practice.

Prof. Gordon said 16 million Ghanaians used unsanitary or shared latrines while 4.8 million had no latrines at all and defecated in the open.